Egg-filler.



A. C. BUSSEY.

EGG FILLER. APPLICATION man APR.29,1913.

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APPLICATION FILED APR.29| I9 19346349., 13' Patented July 13, 1915.

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ALLAN C.- BUSSEY, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

EGG-FILLER.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLAN C. BUssEY, a citizen of the United States,resident of Minneapolis, Hennepin county, Minnesota, have inventedcertain new and useful Im,- provements in Egg-Fillers, of which thefollowing is a specification.

An ordinary egg iillerl is free to slide laterally in the egg case,though it cannot colf lapse, being held in a substantially rectangularform by the walls of the case, but the lateral movement is oftensulicient to cause considerable breakage of the eggs.

The object, therefore, of my present invention is to provide a means inconnection with an ordinary egg filler to hold it rigidly in the caseagainst lateral movement which would usually cause breakage of the eggs.

In the accompanying drawings forming part of this specification, Figurel is a vertical sectional view of an egg case with my invention appliedthereto, Fig. 2 is a similar view, taken on a section line at rightangles substantially tothe section line of Fig. l, Fig. 3 is aperspective view, Fig. 4 is a plan view, Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofthe plate inserted between the sections of the filler.

In the drawing, 2 represents the case in which theV liller is placed,provided with the usual cover 3.

l and 5 represent the walls of the filler, joined together in the usualway and capable of collapsing to a flattened form, as usual in fillersof this type. In the lower edge of the plates 4 I provide V-shapedrecesses or notches 6, there being preferably two notches between eachpair of the plates 45, forming a central wedge-shaped point orprojection 7 midway between theadjoining plates 5. The upper edges ofthe plates 5 are provided with similar notches 6a, forming between thema tooth or point 7a corresponding to the notches and points in the loweredges of the plates 4. Between these fillers I provide a corrugatedplate 8 having its corrugations suitably spaced to enter the notches orrecesses G and 6a when the plates and the fillers are assembled. Thecorrugations are preferably formed by scoring the plate and then foldingit along the scored lines.

At the ends of the plates aps 9 are formed, being one-half of acorrugation,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed April 29, 1913.

Patented July I3, 1915.

serial No. 764,326. i

`and as indicated in Fig. 1, these flaps will bear on the walls of thecase and one group of filler sections will be offset from another group,as shown. in Figs. l and 2. The lowery or pointed ends of the eggs willfit into the grooves between the corrugations of the plates, as shown inFig. l, and their upper ends will bear on Athe adjacent corrugations ofthe plate above. This offsetting of the corrugated plates will alsocause a correspending offset in the vertical arrangement of the plates 4and 5, the plates of two sections being in line vertically with loneanother while those of the two adjacent sections will be offset. Thefiller sections will thus be held rigidly against lateral movement andas the corrugations of a plate directly beneath a vfiller section andthe one immediately above are at right angles to one another, it followsthat the whole tier of sections will be supported rigidly and bracedingly inclined surfaces of the corrugations and the sections willthereby be interlocked with one another and be securely braced andsupported. This offset or staggered arrangement of the sections willspace the eggs froml the walls of the case, as indicated in Figs. l and2, and greatly reduce, if not entirely eliminate, the breakageresultingfrom rough handling of the egg case.

The filler sections may be made of any suitable size and material, andthe notches may be modified in formA to receive the corrugations of thefiller plates and in various ways the details of construction hereinshown may be modified and still be within the scope of my invention.

I claim as my invention 1. An egg liller composed of a series oftransverse and longitudinal plates intersecting one another to -form aseries of egg pockets, one of said series of plates havingv notches orrecesses in their lower edges, the

other series of plates having notches or rej ing its corrugationsrunning at right angles substantially to those of said lirst named plateand tting the notches in the other series of plates, thereby bracingsaid filler ries of plates being midway substantially between the edgesof the other series of plates,

. corrugated plates fitting the notches in the upper and lower edges ofsaid iiller plates and having the corrugations of one plate running ati'iglit angles substantially to the corrugations of the other plate,whereby said filler pla-tes and the pockets formed thereby will bebraced and strengthened against lateral movement.

3. The combination, with an egg case, of a series of iller sectionsitting therein, one above another, each section being composed of agroup of parallel plates extending `transversely of the section and asimilar group of parallel plates extending longitudinally of thesection, one of said groups of plates having notches in its lower edgesand the other of said groups of plates having notches in its upperedges, corrugatedidivr sion plates fitting into said notches` andbracing said plates and the pockets formed thereby against lateralmovement.

4. The combination, with an egg case, 'of a series of illersectionsitting therein, one above another, each section being composed of agroup of parallel plates extending transversely ofthe section and asimilar y group of parallel plates extending longitudinally of thesection, one of said groups of plates having notches only at the top ofthe filler and the other of said groups of plates having notches only atthe bottom of the filler, division plates interposed between saidsections and having means for interlocking with the notches in the topand bottom of said sections and bridging and bracing the sectionsagainst lateral and crushing pressure, said bridging means lapping bythe ends of the eggs insaid pockets.

5. The combination, with an egg case, of a series of filler sectionsfitting therein, one above another, each section being composed of agroup of parallel plates extending transversely of the section and asimilar group of parallel plates extending longitudinally of thesection, division plates interposed between said sections, each divisionplate at the top of a section interlocking with the upper edges of onegroup of parallel plates between their points of intersection with theother group of parallel plates, and each division plate at the bottom ofa section interlocking with the lower edges of the other group ofparallel plates between their ponts of intersection with the first namedgroup, said division plates straddling and forming bearings for the endsof the eggs in said section.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hanc" this 21th day of April1913.

ALLA)T C.v BUSSEY. vWitnf ses:

Gfinnvinvn E. SoRENsEN, EDWARD A. PA UL.

